Viscous fluid clutch

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1976-09-27

1978-05-02

Herrmann, Allan D.

192 clutches and power-stop control

Clutches

Fluent material

192 82T, 251263, 236 99G, F16D 3500, F16D 4325

Patent

active

040869873

ABSTRACT:
A viscous fluid clutch including a clutch plate member rotatably mounted in the clutch housing, and serving as a rotatable wall dividing the chamber within the housing into an annular working chamber adjacent one face thereof and an annular reservoir chamber adjacent the other face thereof, with inlet and outlet ports formed in the clutch plate and a radially extending, resilient, flexible valve member mounted on the reservoir chamber face thereof for controlling the flow of fluid medium from the reservoir chamber to the working chamber through the inlet port, in response to the action of a temperature-responsive power unit mounted on the housing.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3155209 (1964-11-01), Weir
patent: 3262528 (1966-07-01), Weir
patent: 3339689 (1967-09-01), Sutaruk
patent: 3419122 (1968-12-01), Connelly
patent: 3690428 (1972-09-01), Laflame
patent: 3893555 (1975-07-01), Elmer

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